Jumping spiders are among the most captivating and diverse creatures within the arachnid family. Known for their exceptional vision and exuberant leaping abilities, these fascinating spiders have ...

Ajay Narendra receives funding from Australian Research Council. Jumping spiders – one of the largest spider families – get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey ...

Beaty Biodiversity Museum Director Wayne Maddison has uncovered 30 to 50 never-before-identified species of jumping spiders as part of a Conservation International expedition to Papua New Guinea. The ...

Rising temperatures and the resultant ecological shifts in their habitats make them particularly vulnerable to extinction. Jumping spider sits on a table. Image by Erik Karits via Pexels. Jumping ...

If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Well, it probably depends on the type of snake vs the type of spider, as a backyard battle in suburban Adelaide recently illustrated. The duel between a deadly redback spider and a baby brown snake ...

“While there are absolutely some cave-dwelling fungi that are problematic for humans, this is part of a group of fungi that only infects spiders. Jumping to humans would require it to evolve ...

Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the moon, a new Johns Hopkins University study suggests. The ...

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- Japanese ski jumping star Ryoyu Kobayashi earned his second straight World Cup gold Sunday with another victory on home soil in Sapporo. The 28-year-old broke an 11-month ...